How did they make the compiler for this site? http://www.compileonline.com/compile_java_online.php
Ask HN: How did they make an online compiler?
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Re: Ask HN: How did they make an online compiler?
#2I assume it's a standard Java compiler. The hard part is preventing security breaches when the program is run.
The list of languages they support is impressive: http://www.compileonline.com/
Re: Ask HN: How did they make an online compiler?
#3At a (semi-educated) guess, they've got a box (or several) running Javac 1.7.0_09 (like it says in the title) and a script that pushes stdin and stdout around and back to the web page with the results of the compilation.
Trickier ways of doing this include Emscripten [1]
Re: Ask HN: How did they make an online compiler?
#4https://github.com/skulpt/skulpt
Skulpt is a Javascript implementation of the Python programming language.